veiled

English

Adjective

veiled

Covered by a veil.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).
(figurative) Partly hidden or concealed.
His veiled threat was terrifying.

veiled shots

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:hidden

Translations

covered by a veil

Azerbaijani: başıörtülü
Swedish: beslöjad

Verb

veiled

simple past tense and past participle of veil

Anagrams

deevil, levied

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